If you’ve never had an inkblot party with your kids, I highly recommend it. I had a lot of fun making thirty-one inkblots for the chapter headings with my children. Not only was the process fun, the kids couldn’t wait to see what their splatters looked like. I think the best part of this was…
The first time I learnt about dementia was when my father was struck with it in his late seventies. It was painful watching such an intelligent man fall into this deep abyss of dementia, from which he could never revive. Dementia made him silent. He forgot to speak, to read, to write and to recognize…
What is your new novel, Interpretation, about? I’d like to think it’s about taking time to embrace the best of humanity — each other. But I’m not sure if most people will see it that way. Without any spoilers, the main character, Carl Winston, lives an ordinary and somewhat luxurious life with his son, Liam. …
Girl Repurposed: Tranquila Obiit is smart enough to save a stranger’s life. But when Tran’s salty, daytime-television-addicted grandmother tricks her into selling her soul to Hades, dodging near-death experiences becomes a daily ritual. Now, as an employee of the Underworld, Tranquila seeks out her purpose in life while pet-sitting a three-headed dog that is hell-bent…
At only twenty-three years old, Meaghan Curley has published her first book with Cosmic Teapot Publishing. Her novel, Girl: Repurposed, is poised to set the fiction world on fire. Melding her youthful vision with a deep understanding of classical literature, Curley is sure to become one of America’s great humorists. Her voice, a voice for…
In the future, an artificial intelligence governs the citizens of Albany. Life is perfect. The Crossgates Mall is a bustling center of activity: a three-dimensional projector shoots up to the ceiling in one of the corridors. The selection of food is second to none. For the kids, an arcade filled with fully immersive holographic games…
CEO of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and supporter of Open AI, Elon Musk, has many concerns about artificial intelligence. Perhaps it is surprising to find that Musk believes that the government should regulate AI before it is fully developed. He thinks that if the government is reactive, as it usually is, they will be too late…
If someone observed us from afar, they could claim that our civilization was a civilization of walls. That was its main purpose. Such observers would likely not be able to explain why. I cannot either. Walls do not protect. They just trap and kill. Three short stories about a dystopic future, about people turning into…
In 1866, Peter Baxter’s misfortune ends the day he leaves Badgerys Creek orphanage. Unsure of what to do next, Peter finds himself on a farm run by Mr. Brown. An aging man, Brown needs help and is happy to give Peter a place to live in exchange for his labor. Unbeknownst to Peter, Brown’s past…
One thing was clear when I started writing Interpretation: there was plenty of research that needed to be done. In the book, an artificial intelligence wants to continue psychological research. This machine looks to the past to determine what future experiments it wants to run. One of the first things that I had to research…